Issue 5 of Irelands anarchist magazine Red and Black Revolution published in 2001

RBR5

Issue 5 of Irelands anarchist magazine Red and Black Revolution published in 2001

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Red and Black Revolution

Issue 5 May 2001

Capitalism under siege?

* Biotechnology, confusion, fear and protest

* Peadar O'Donnell and the Spanish Revolution

* Anarchism and elections

* Review: No Logo

* Review: Globalise this

* Revolutionary Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement

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Biotechnology Fear
Confusion and Protest

Over the past few years developments in biotechnology such as cloning and genetic
modification of food have led to wide scale confusion, fear and protest. In
this article Conor Mc Loughlin explains some of these technologies and asks
are they safe? Have they any benefits? Should they be rejected or could they
be used for the benefit of an anarchist society

Peadar O'Donnell
and the Spanish Revolution

Donal Ó Drisceoil, historian and author of a forthcoming biography of
Peadar O'Donnell, looks at Salud! An Irishman in Spain, a little known
account by O'Donnell of his encounter with the revolution in Spain in 1936..

Anarchism
and Elections

Anarchism is the only political movement which consistently urges a boycott
of parliamentary elections, and which refuses to partake in the sham of parliamentary
'democracy'. Too often the anarchist argument on elections is written off as
just a fad or an attempt to 'appear' radical. In this article Gregor Kerr looks
at the concrete political arguments behind the slogan 'If elections changed
anything, they'd make them illegal'.

Review - No Logo

The publication of No Logo was perfectly, if unintentionally, timed.
Just as the N30 demonstrations in Seattle made headlines around the world, No
Logo arrived to explain some of the reasons for that movement

Review: Globalise
this

Globalise This! is one of the more important and informative books to
come out of the Battle of Seattle. The thrust of the book from the very beginning
is towards the activist and 'the citizen' interested in doing something about
what is wrong on this planet.

Revolutionary Anarchism
and the Anti-Globalization Movement

The 'anti-globalisation' movement of recent years has been a subject of great
controversy within the anarchist movement. Lucien van der Walt, a South
African anarchist active in anti-privatisation struggles, argues that the movement
must not let this immensely important anti-capitalist struggle slip between
our fingers. [This
article in Italian]

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